Disquiet Junto Project 0586: Chance the Eraser

The Assignment: Use probability to remove material from a track.

Step 1: Record a piece of multitrack music with at least three separate tracks. If you already have a multitrack recording of your own in mind for this project, feel free to use it.

Step 2: Go back and erase various parts of the recording from Step 1 by utilizing chance techniques. (For example, you might roll dice: once to determine which of the multitrack parts, once to determine the starting point in the track of the erasure, and once to determine the length of the erasure.)

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Deadline: This project’s deadline is the end of the day Monday, March 27, 2023, at 11:59pm (that is, just before midnight) wherever you are. It was posted on Thursday, March 23, 2023.

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Disquiet Junto Project 0586: Chance the Eraser

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Chance The Eraser

Disquiet Junto | Chance The Eraser - disquiet0586

Check out the visuals on YouTube @ https://youtu.be/8phdy_63zE8

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visuals (YouTube)

halF eraseD [disquiet0586]

for this project i quickly jammed three voices in ableton, simple motifs, each sequence then used chance functionality (57%, 77% & 70%) to randomly gate the inputted midi. Heavy use of the phenomenal Cycles and some OTT compression. some panning,  delay and reverb

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2303 23 - 03 - 23 [disquiet0586]

Four electronic sequences with sections deleted on an ad hoc basis but playing together at the end.

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Change About (disquiet0586)

This track was created by randomly fading in and out individually the instruments and recordings of the original track https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/winter-slow-and-even-tempered. The created spaces enrich the track, give more emphasis to the remaining instruments - and a deeper meaning of its own to this composition.  As contradictory as this may seem...

The creation was inspired by the Disquiet Junto Project 0586 (details see below).

I owe my thanks to @user-957729823 (Ha Kéko) for providing the great field-recording https://soundcloud.com/user-957729823/snow-removal_2. An ambient version of this recording was created with PaulXStretch.
These tracks can be heard if hazard determines to fade them in...

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Winter, slow and even-tempered, embracing Spaces (Disquiet0586)

Disquiet Junto Project 0586: Chance the Eraser
The Assignment: Use probability to remove material from a track.

At first I used a (way longer) track I am working on and added the erasers. First eraser is the virtual modular Mirack as a FX: The rubbers are two filters, the randomness comes from a pair of probability driven sequencer CVs with divided semi-randomnized clocks. The second eraser is simply Audiomodern Gatelab, which has a mode in which at the end of the loop a new gate pattern is created. The third eraser is Cherry Audio Voltage Modular as FX with a panner, that is gating with a sequencers input; the sequencer is just an on/off pattern (erasing lefts and rights), but the clock is probability driven (and the probability amount is CVed by another probability module).

Maybe because the original track (a) was generative/euclidian with a lot of changes in itself, the result didn't convince me. So I looked for stems with less movement.

I added stems from "Eternal Trancemissions 01 [disquiet0576]" https://krakenkraft.bandcamp.com/track/eternal-trancemission-01 to the existing track framework with the defined FXs. Because the bass stem fell into the track with the Mirack modular filter there was this part murky, part screaming result I instantly liked as a fundament for the remaining stems of what became (b). 

Thanks to Raphael for the cover image.

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disquiet23

deceptive teleology b [disquiet0586]

Interference (disquiet0586)

i used each line of poetry from this week's naviar haiku ("travel home / even the air / has changed") to generate three separate morse code messages. each morse code message was then used to trigger its own instance of trackspacer, which ruptured either the sub, guitar or string channels of my naviar composition. in this way, my original track "even the air has changed" became "uneven, the air has changed."

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[disquiet0586] uneven, the air has changed

Devotion

“How would a conqueror AI eliminate human life?” Max Tegmark cheerfully asks in his book Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. “Probably by a method we wouldn’t even understand, at least not until it was too late.” Tegmark goes on to hypothesize that although we might view AI as being sophisticated beyond our comprehension, it’s equally possible that AI intentions may be as banal as maximizing the production of paper clips.

Suss Müsik foresees a slightly different scenario, one in which our relationship with technology diverts from the transactional to the ouroborostic. Perhaps our downfall will be caused not by AI directly, but rather how AI influences our behavior. One imagines the human species succumbing to a series of random imperfections, perhaps the very sort that machines were designed to eliminate. Like a coughing fit that comes from nowhere and develops into chronic emphysema.

With that sunny backstory, Suss Müsik sought to imagine the parallelism between digital and biological glitches. A simple, repetitive song was performed using facsimile presets of a 1990’s Casio keyboard: organ, bass, synth. Each voice, apart from the rhythm beat, was randomly erased by activating a DIY disruption filter and muting a given track at various points. The coughs were sampled from what was likely a very boring webinar.

The piece is titled Casiocide and was recorded live to TASCAM eight-track. The image is by a talented artist named Kirill Cherezov and used under a paid license.

https://www.behance.net/kcherezoff26ea?locale=en_US

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Casiocide [Disquiet0586]

The Assignment: Use probability to remove material from a track.

I made a 3 track piece specifically for this idea instead of using something I already had because I figured it should be done with tracks that always have something happening so the silence is more noticeable/dramatic.  I think the moments where everything cuts out are the most dramatic.  Silence is sort of the 4th track in that sense (or what ever is going on around you when listening).  The piece itself used a fair bit of aleatory.  "Dr Chaos" is a max for live instrument I used with the drum kit.  It plays random samples at a regular beat division (1/8th, 1/16th, etc.). The 2 other tracks are just moving through different interval cycles (minor 3rds and perfect 4ths) at different paces so they create different unpredictable harmonies.  I used Random.org to decide where to cut and how long the cut should be (1-8 beats).  I figured cutting on beats instead of seconds would give the breaks a rhythmic quality.

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Nothing Hear (disquiet0586)

[disquiet0586] Warble

I took a chamber piece I studied back in high school (https://imslp.org/wiki/Grand_Flute_Quartet%2C_Op.103_(Kuhlau%2C_Friedrich)) and recorded all the parts in Audacity. I then rolled my d20 to determine how many bars I would leave intact, then a d4 to choose which part to get rid of, and the d20 again to see how many bars that would last. I repeated the process to end up with alternating sections of all the parts together and sections with one part missing. (It's very obvious when the first part drops out. The others...slightly less so.)

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Critical Hit Kuhlau (disquiet 0586)

In this assignment, the goal was to use chance to remove elements of a song.

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wreck 2 [disquiet0586]

Chance Bike:
using chance ( a deck of cards) to rework the Bicycle track 

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disquietjunto

disquiet0586_chancebike

This was my contribution for the Disquiet Junto Project 0586: Chance the Eraser
Here’s a copy of my post on the Disquiet Junto 0586 discussion thread:
I recycled a four track sketch that was created in Ableton Live a few months ago for this assignment.
Using Audiomodern's free gate sequencer plugin, Gatelab, I was able to randomly turn on/off, chop up and modulate notes in three of the tracks. I also used their motion filter plugin, Filterstep, on the fourth track for additional effects. This setup worked great until it came time to render the final mix. Ableton froze and crashed multiple times no matter what I tried. Not sure, but could be these plugins weren't happy with the recently installed OS Ventura on my M1 MacBook Pro, or some other strange voodoo. Finally ended up recording the completed audio on a Tascam digital recorder. Despite the technical headaches, I had a lot of fun with this project.

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Random Gates and Flows [disquiet0586]

For this project, I made 8 tracks with 4 different Synths: 1x4 and 3x2 with the same patch, to get a more coherent sound. Then I turned the tracks randomly on and off in AUM with Cykle. I do not entirely understand how the different layers of Cykle and the chance function really work together so I am not sure, how random it really is. Does it sound random enough? No master effects or anything to glue it all together as I thought this would be cheating.

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Disquiet0586 - Cuts

Space Sandman (disquiet0586)

Nice challenge, this, really enjoyed it. Such a simple but effective approach. I looked at the seven individual tracks that comprise the piece I made last week in response to the Naviar Haiku challenge (https://soundcloud.com/leonclowes/heavenly-ascent-naviarhaiku480) and graffittied my name (leon) across the seven tracks. This dictated the spaces that were then erased. 

I had to fade in and out some parts for varnishing purposes but I prefer this to the original track - it has more space. Really nice and adaptable method to mix up a drone or ambient piece.

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Disquiet Junto Project 0586

5 tracks live ipad jam. Different combinations of Unfiltered Audio Silo and Audio Damage Replicant 3 randomly delete audio from each track. 

Disquiet Junto Project 0586: Chance the Eraser

The Assignment: Use probability to remove material from a track.

Step 1: Record a piece of multitrack music with at least three separate tracks. If you already have a multitrack recording of your own in mind for this project, feel free to use it.

Step 2: Go back and erase various parts of the recording from Step 1 by utilizing chance techniques. (For example, you might roll dice: once to determine which of the multitrack parts, once to determine the starting point in the track of the erasure, and once to determine the length of the erasure.)

More on this 586th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Chance the Eraser (The Assignment: Use probability to remove material from a track), at: https://disquiet.com/0586/

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Photo by Solen Feyissa on unsplash.

disquiet0586 Lobster Underpass

My 33 1/3 series book about the Aphex Twin album <i>Selected Ambient Works Volume II</i> was published in 2014. The book was one of the top 5 bestselling titles for the calendar year, and in 2015 was ranked by Pitchfork as one of the "33 best" of the 100-plus books in the 33 1/3 series. It has subsequently been translated into Japanese (2019) and Spanish (2018)

Since 2012 I have moderated the Disquiet Junto group, which began on SoundCloud. More at disquiet.com/junto. 

I've written for Nature, Pitchfork, The Wire, Down Beat, Boing Boing, NewMusicBox, Red Bull Music Academy, Art Practical, the website of The Atlantic, and many other publications. 

I've exhibited sound art at galleries in Los Angeles (Crewest), Manhattan (apex art), and Dubai (DUTAC), and I had a audio-visual installation at the San Jose Museum of Art as part of its 45th anniversary.

And since 1996 I've run the website Disquiet.com about the intersection of sound, art, and technology.